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Floor-less Reflection
There is a technique of creating of creating what I call ‘floor-less’ reflection that involved cloning a layer, flipping it and putting a rectangle over the clone and changing its fill to gradient and putting it into an image mask applied to the clone. Yada yada yada.
It seems that somewhere I heard that its much simpler to get a reflection without putting in a reflective floor using Motion 5.
Is that true or is it wishful thinking?
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I think I remember seeing something about that too, maybe Macbreak Studio? I’ll try to remember…
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Duplicate the image, flip it upside down, move it to the bottom of the original and blend with a feathered mask and opacity?
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[Don Smith] “There is a technique of creating of creating what I call ‘floor-less’ reflection that involved cloning a layer, flipping it and putting a rectangle over the clone and changing its fill to gradient and putting it into an image mask applied to the clone. Yada yada yada.”
That’s the only way that I would know of without the use of an actual reflective object. Otherwise you could try using a white “floor” for the reflection and then applying it with a composite mode such as Overlay over your backplate, if that’s what it is you’re looking to do.
– RK
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So, you’re looking for a way to create a reflection that doesn’t use either of those techniques?
Andy
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Or a drop shadow like in the Dramatic title in FCPX?
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Andy… Yes. I sometimes need the reflection as if a floor is there but without a floor object to block the background. There’s the old technique as I describe in my OP but I thought I had heard somewhere along the way that you could achieve that reflection in the newest Motion without using a floor object and without the complexity hoops of the original technique.
It must have been a hallucination! 🙂
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I’m still stuck in Motion 4 but seem to remember it has a “reflection” filter somewhere, might be M5 does too. I’ve manually made reflectives like this, in the way you’ve described, but the free plug-in from Noise Industries, called cover flow or cover flux, seems like an easy to customize starting point. Maybe you can modify that into a template that is re-useable for you?
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Reflections are easy to do in Motion 4 with its built in reflection feature. Take a look at this tutorial: https://library.creativecow.net/articles/smith_stephen/reflection_4.php
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